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Dressed to Impress South Wales Charter Operation Adds Bespoke Service to Match the King Air’S Impressive Ramp Appeal A MAGAZINE FOR THE OWNER/PILOT OF KING AIR AIRCRAFT JULY 2020 • VOLUME 14, NUMBER 7 • $6.50 Dressed to Impress South Wales charter operation adds bespoke service to match the King Air’s impressive ramp appeal King July 2020 VolumeAir 14 / Number 7 A MAGAZINE FOR THE OWNER/PILOT OF KING AIR AIRCRAFT 2 Contents EDITOR Kim Blonigen EDITORIAL OFFICE 2779 Aero Park Dr., Traverse City MI 49686 2 Phone: (316) 652-9495 Ramped Up – King Air 200 E-mail: [email protected] series’ ramp appeal impresses PUBLISHERS Dave Moore charter passengers Village Publications by MeLinda Schnyder GRAPHIC DESIGN Rachel Wood PRODUCTION MANAGER Mike Revard 12 Ask The Expert – Treat Your PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR Jason Smith King Air Kindly ADVERTISING DIRECTOR by Tom Clements 20 John Shoemaker King Air Magazine 2779 Aero Park Drive 28 Traverse City, MI 49686 Phone: 1-800-773-7798 Fax: (231) 946-9588 E-mail: [email protected] ADVERTISING ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR AND REPRINT SALES Betsy Beaudoin Phone: 1-800-773-7798 E-mail: [email protected] ADVERTISING ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Shannon Martin 28 Phone: 1-800-773-7798 Value Added Email: [email protected] 12 SUBSCRIBER SERVICES Rhonda Kelly, Mgr. Kelly Adamson 30 Jessica Meek Technically... Jamie Wilson 20 P.O. Box 1810 In History – Beechcraft – Traverse City, MI 49685 1-800-447-7367 Diversify or Die by Edward H. Philips 32 ONLINE ADDRESS www.kingairmagazine.com Advertiser Index SUBSCRIPTIONS King Air is distributed at no charge to all registered owners of King Air aircraft. The mailing list is updated bi-monthly. All others may sub scribe by writing to: King Air, P.O. King Air is wholly owned by Village Press, Inc. and is in no way associated with or a product of Textron Aviation. Box 1810, Traverse City, MI 49685, or by King Air (ISSN 1938-9361), USPS 16694 is published monthly by Village Press, Inc., 2779 Aero Park Drive, Traverse City, Michigan calling 1-800-447-7367. Rates for one year, 49686. Periodicals Postage Paid at Traverse City, MI. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to King Air, Village Press Inc., 12 issues: United States $15.00, Canada $24.00 (U.S. funds), all other foreign $52.00 P.O. Box 1810, Traverse City, MI 49685. Telephone (231) 946-3712. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. (U.S. funds). Single copies: United States Copyright 2020, Village Publications. $6.50, Canada/Foreign $9.00. ADVERTISING: Advertising in King Air does not necessarily imply endorsement. Queries, questions, and requests for media kits should be directed to the Advertising Director, King Air, P.O. Box 1810, Traverse City, Michigan 49685. Telephone 1-800-773-7798. COVER PHOTO Courtesy of DragonFly Aviation Services Limited MANUSCRIPTS: King Air assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs, or art work. While unsolicited submissions are welcome, it is best to query first and ask for our Writer’s Guidelines. All unassigned submissions must be accompanied by return postage. Address queries and requests for Writer’s Guidelines to the editor. JULY 2020 KING AIR MAGAZINE • 1 Ramped Up 2 • KING AIR MAGAZINE JULY 2020 Ramped Up King Air 200 series’ ramp appeal impresses charter passengers by MeLinda Schnyder ne of Howard Palser’s childhood memories from growing up in the coastal city of Cardiff in Great Britain’s South Wales region is of his parents taking him and his brother on Sunday afternoons to watch aircraft landing and taking off at the airport. He remembers Osipping lemonade while watching what he describes as pure theater, when the Cambrian Airways’ Douglas DC-3 Dakotas fired up: engines coughing up smoke and belching flames out of the exhausts with a cacophony of noise. He also saw the comings and goings of the more modern Fokker F27 Friendship turboprop airliners operated by the Irish airline Aer Lingus. JULY 2020 KING AIR MAGAZINE • 3 While the experience piqued his interest in aircraft in 1990 and has driven fewer than 1,000 miles per year.) and planted the seed for learning to fly later in life, he While aviation was also an interest, neither became never imagined that he’d one day operate an air charter his career. business out of “The White Building” at Cardiff Airport, Instead, he became a lawyer. He spent his first 20 a facility that back then was the head office of the airline years in the practice he joined out of law school, then that was eventually absorbed into British Airways. started his own practice with two junior partners in 1992. His was not a direct flight path, however. Howard What he intended to be a boutique firm specializing in had a successful career as a lawyer, learning to fly at litigation, principally acting for insurance companies, age 40 and then using an airplane for business travel rapidly expanded into a large practice so that in five throughout the United Kingdom and Europe. When he years the firm employed 70 lawyers and a total head decided to retire from practice in 2003, he hit on the count of 130. It was during that time that he realized idea of setting up the only air charter company based at the time savings of flying himself to visit his offices in Cardiff and the first in Wales to offer jet-engine aircraft. five cities and clients located throughout the U.K. DragonFly Aviation Services Limited, which acquired “My interest in aviation was sufficient for my wife to the airline’s old call-sign of Cambrian, turns 16 this year make the inspired choice of a trial flight as a present for and has flown more than 12,000 commercial charter my 40th birthday,” Howard said. “I very much enjoyed hours, nearly all in Beechcraft King Air 200 series aircraft. that, signed up for some lessons and qualified for a pilot’s license in 1990. With a friend who is a true aviation enthusiast, who had also qualified for his license, I Filling an unmet need in Cardiff bought a Socata TB-200, an attractive, modern and His father was an engineer who had his own small well-built four-seat, single-engine French aircraft. Flying garage, which stoked Howard’s lifelong interest in cars. this aircraft around the U.K. for business and realizing (He owns a rare 1957 Daimler Drophead Coupé, of which the savings of time that could be achieved prompted me only 57 were made, and a BMW Z1 that he bought new to set up DragonFly 10 years or so later.” 4 • KING AIR MAGAZINE JULY 2020 Howard has had a lifelong interest in cars due to his father owning a small garage. Here he is with his 1990 BMW Z1 and at left is his rare 1957 Daimler Drophead Coupé. Howard retired from his firm in 2003 and opened DragonFly in 2004 with his wife Nerida. At first, he maintained a connection to the legal industry as chairman of an international association of lawyers headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, while growing the charter business. It didn’t take long, though, for DragonFly to command all of his attention. Growth was fast because DragonFly was the only air charter company to serve the business community in South Wales. His decision to start the business with a King Air and operate from Cardiff Airport allowed him to offer time-efficient and cost-effective transportation throughout the U.K. and Europe. “We are based on the south side of the airport, on the other side from the main passenger terminal,” Howard said of the Cardiff Airport. “Traffic is relatively light and we are not subject to the use of slots for aircraft arrivals and departures. Because there are no environmental restrictions, the airport is open 24/7 which is rare in our small country where airspace is busy and highly controlled.” Another factor that accelerated the company’s growth from a standing start to nearly 400 charter hours within a year was the recognition of DragonFly by charter brokers. JULY 2020 KING AIR MAGAZINE • 5 DragonFly’s first aircraft, a 1980 B200 Super King Air pictured here at Gibraltar Airport, has been retrofitted with Blackhawk PT6A-61 engines, 4-blade props and upgraded avionics. These brokers produced charters from airports other than Cardiff, mainly in the South of England and peripheral airports in the greater London area, which are no more than a 30- to 40-minute flight from Cardiff. “I believe the brokers were pleased to have another option to Scotland put clients, and those relationships we made with brokers in the early days still hold good today,” Howard said. “They soon found that we were competitively priced, able to posi- tion quickly and inexpensively from our base, and were not restricted by airport closing times. Brokers were also impressed by the safety factor Northern of flying at all times with two fully Ireland qualified, type-rated commercial pilots: a captain and a first officer. Although a significant extra cost to us, I believe that in the densely con- - England gested airspace in which we operate, having two genuinely experienced Wales pilots up front provides an extra - Based out of Cardiff Airport, located margin of safety.” in the South Wales region of Great Stanstead Britain, allows DragonFly to offer Oxford time-efficient and cost-effective Cardiff Luton London Building a business around City transportation throughout the Heathrow the King Air 200 series U.K. and Europe. Gatwick Biggin Hill Farnborough Howard said he briefly considered purchasing a Cessna Golden Eagle to start DragonFly but a test flight in a 1980 B200 Super King Air owned by Manhattan Air Charter changed his mind.
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